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When one of the rarest and most significant watches of the 21st century lands finds its way into an auction catalog, you can expect nothing short of a frenzied, no-limits battle to acquire it. And that’s exactly what happened yesterday, at Bonhams in London, when a George Daniels Co-Axial Anniversary wristwatch hit the block, fetching an astounding £224,500 (approximately $293,000 at time of sale).